If Webber loses the championship he can thank red bull. they are allowing and assisting vettel to get close enough whilst minimising possible points for webber when alonso is sneaking up with a late charge. i.e. allowing vettel twice to be exactly in front of webber the last 2 races & race before that in italy allowing vettel to jump webber and rosberg on last lap when webber was being held up by hulkenberg cutting about 3-4 chicanes. webber has been 21 and now 14 points in front of vettel and been in front most of the season and doesn’t look like getting much support from red bull but when vettel was only 3 points in front of webber which is just about the only time he has been all season they took webber’s nose cone off in britain and gave it to vettel claiming it wasn’t favouritism and just who was in front in the championship. (mind you webber still won and not to mention turkey off course). noticed webber’s pitstop slightly slower than vettel’s both today in japan and also back in malaysia when webber would not let vettel get ahead more than a second and dropped back a couple of seconds after average pitstops for webber’s car. i know what red bull are doing and it will work for them if vettel wins, however if he doesn’t and alonso wins then they have pretty much thrown away webber’s championship. enough said.

Same could be said abt vettel and Alonso too.
Had Alonso not made a jump start at China, not crashed in MOnaco and Spa, he wud be leading too.
Its all part and parcel of the sport.
If car isn fast,its team’s mistake and if the driver do some driving errors, its obviously driver’s mistake.
There is always some reason behind every happening and we cant always hide behind “ifs” and “buts”

Not really. All drivers have made costly mistakes and/or have had bad luck/reliability issues. Why aren’t we seeing people beat up Alonso for crashing in Monaco and his Silverstone antics, he would have had enough points to be in the lead by now. If the situation had been reversed we’d have forgotten about Hamilton’s mistakes and be talking about Alonso’s instead.

Yes, totally agree. Just wanted to point out that at this stage of WDC he undertook some excessive risk. Unlike jump start, all technical failures, these two were clearly avoidable moves from HAM (just like several years ago when he missed pits in Malaysia and then lost championship).

Well, Alonso’s mistakes in Monaco and Silverstone were avoidable too, as were Vettel’s in Turkey and Belgium.

Plus, although Webber has made less mistakes than these three, Button hasn’t made any, and is 5th. I get what you’re saying but I think the Top 4 have lost just as much because of technical failures and bad luck as they have by themselves; that pointing to recent mistakes is a matter of perspective.